Linksys LRT224 Business Dual WAN Gigabit VPN Router

With Gigabit Ethernet ports, OpenVPN support and an integrated firewall, the Linksys LRT224 Business Dual WAN Gigabit VPN Router is the ideal choice for reliable and secure network service for growing businesses. OpenVPN support gives employees secure remote access to your VPN from laptops or smartphones and URL filtering allows administrators to prevent employees from visiting harmful or time-wasting sites. Get faster performance with dual-WAN load balancing, which increases Internet bandwidth and keep your network running smoothly with the VLAN tagging feature. An intuitive web administrative interface lets business owners and administrators easily instal and manage the router without the need for professional IT staff onsite.

OpenVPN Provides Secure Remote Access

Employees can gain secure remote access to the network from laptops, smartphones and tablets thanks to this router's OpenVPN server support. Two-factor authentication ensures only trusted sources connect to your network. The Linksys Dual WAN Gigabit VPN Router provides five OpenVPN tunnels for access from iOS and Android devices as well as up to 50 IPsec tunnels for site-to-site and client-to-client VPN.

Integrated Firewall for Regulating Usage

Boost employee productivity and prevent access to harmful sites with URL filtering without sacrificing network performance. With this VPN router, administrators can regulate traffic within the business network to keep employees off time-wasting websites and control access to potentially dangerous TCP/UDP ports or source/destination IP addresses. The Linksys router offers 110 Mbps IPsec and 900 Mbps firewall throughputs.

Dual-WAN Achieves Higher Bandwidth for Faster Speeds

For faster downloads and data transfers, this router features dual-WAN load balancing, which combines the bandwidths of both WAN connections for a much higher Internet bandwidth than a single WAN connection. If you lose Internet connection on one of your WAN connections, WAN failover will automatically route all traffic over to the other WAN to keep your business operating until full network service is restored.

Web Administrative Interface Is Easy to Use

Easily instal and manage your routers without the need for professional IT staff onsite. Designed for use by small business owners and administrators, the intuitive web administrative interface makes it easy to set up and customise your router to suit your office needs.

Designed for Easy Transition As Your Business Grows

Avoid bandwidth saturation and potential security issues with this router's 802.1q VLAN tagging feature. Organise and separate resources for different departments as you create more VLANs for your expanding network. Configure access between servers and workstations with inter-VLAN routing, which allows specified traffic to travel between VLANs.

This router also supports dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 technologies, so it will remain compatible with new software as service providers continue to upgrade their systems.

Top customer reviews

Price wise this is a decent router but there seems to be a number of issues. Specifically, I just couldn't get the EasyVPN feature to work at all although old fashioned IPSEC VPN's seem fine if slightly more complex to configure. Also had major issues with DHCP with certain devices simply refusing to pull addresses from it. Eventually I had to disable DHCP on the Linksys and use another device (my Synology NAS) as a DHCP server and then everything started working as expected. For many users, however, DHCP should be a "it just works" feature and its alarming that something so basic would be unusable in a device from such a major vendor.

The most worrying aspect of these issues is that Linksys haven't updated the firmware for nearly 10 months which does seem to imply that they are not really actively working on the problems with this device.

The dual WAN feature works very well and is very easy to set up. Obviously, you will need two external modems of whatever flavour you require to operate in dual WAN mode. I use it for load balancing and fail-over, both of which are seamless. I have gone from two unmanageable LANs with separate broadband (7Mb/s) connections to a single LAN with what looks like a 14Mb/s broadband connection. I no longer have to manually reconfigure everything when a broadband connection goes down, the router fails to the working WAN connection and can send a notification email if required. Otherwise it is a router/firewall with all the features you would expect to have. I particularly like the ability to have MAC/IP address binding and the ability to only permit pre-registered devices access to the network. Physical attachment to the network is not longer good enough security. This means that employees cannot used there own devices without explicit permission by whoever controls the router. A future-proofing feature is that you can run a dual IPV4 and IPV6 stack so assigns IPV6 IP addresses as well as IP4. The only lack of flexibility of this device is the sharing of the WAN2 interface with the physical DMZ port, but there are other ways around that limitation so I only knocked of 1 star for that.